Marriage Vows

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 566, 19 January 1929, Page 23

Marriage Vows

Hollywood Divorcees Become Confidential

OPINIONS OF YOUNG STARS

‘ the younger stars , j recently divorced, marry I

again ? Cynical people may regara this question as quite unnecessary, but leading ladies have their answers, delivered with varying degrees of certainty.

Leatrice Joy was first approached by a Hollywood Interviewer. “No, 3! wouldn’t,” she said. “I have my child. Most women marry tor a home and children. I have a very lovely home, and more than anything else, I have Leatrice. I have my memories of a wonderful happiness, too. Jack Gilbert and I are friends, if no longer lovers.” Another actress who took her marriage very seriously is Marie Prevost. Bu t Marie does not say she won’t marry again. On the contrary. “Would I marry again? Sure I would!” smiled Marie. “I don’t know when, but I certainly willi”

She admits that men are odd creatures, hard to understand. But she thinks that is one of the things to } be expected. That is why she didn’t j divorce Kenneth Harlan sooner. She j always gave him another chance. “And when I did decide to get a j divorce, he was a very surprised j man,” said Marie. “He read it in the j paper when he was out of town, and thought somebody was playing a joke on him. “We had a very happy marriage, j Kenneth and I. The divorce was : just a series of misunderstandings I that did not begin to take place until ! some time after we were married.” Claire Windsor, some say Hollywood’s greatest beauty, isn’t quite sure. But she doesn’t think she will marry again. “I don’t think so,” said Claire. “I have a nice home and an adorable little son, and there is my mother. “A husband is a great responsibility. As long as L have my work. I am happy as 1 am. I worked over my busband’s business affairs. Husbands | expect so much of their wives. Bert Lyttel was a wonderful husband m many ways. “Bert and 1 were separated so mueb. for a vear before we were divorced, that sometimes it seems to me we never were married. Perhaps it _is my fault that we were not happy. Winifred Hart was Winifred Westover before she married William S. Hart. The marriage and divorce were headline topics in Hollywood ftlm circles for many months. “Yes, and no,” said Winifred with a twinkle in her blue eyes. “1 mean, j 1 suppose I shouldn’t marry again, but I would. I’m a human being with a heart, and it is quite possible I would marry again if 1 met the right man, even though, judging from past experience, I should not. “I am going about again for the first time, since my marriage to Bill Hart six years ago. I couldn’t until I was divorced, you know. I didn’t want to, either. X wanted my husband to make up with me. But now I roust admit I am enjoying it, dining and dancing with young people like myself.

“Besides, you know I was raised in a convent, with the idea that there must he one marriage and no more. It is hard to get one’s early impressions and convictions out of one’s mind. You cannot get over your childhood teachings so soon.” There is the closest tie imaginable between Norma, Constance and Natalie Talmadge Keaton. Perhaps they have their differences, but nobody ever finds it out. So one is sure of Constance’s! loyalty, but one imagines it is not an entirely blind loyalty, especially where men are concerned. “If I do marry again,” said Constance, “I shall retire from the screen. I think it is very difficult for an actress to be a home-maker. I have a lot of work that I still want to do on the screen. I was married to two non-professional men, as we players call people not in the acting business. Perhaps that was the trouble, t do not believe any man out of the profession can understand an actress, her temperament and viewpoints.”